G20 policing: the anger of Jenny Jones

I've been on the Metropolitan Police Authority for nearly nine years and in all that time I've never been so angry with the police as I am now...The Met and City police forces have brought themselves into disrepute and have lowered public confidence to almost rock bottom. The video footage of police actions during the protests, which appear to show the use of inappropriate force, are not just embarrassing for the Met and City police, they have probably brought policing to a point of no return.

She asks:

Will it be seen as independent? Will it take statements from legal observers and protesters? And will it look at other demos where the police have been accused of violence, from the Gaza demo, to the Countryside Alliance march. If it does none or nearly none of those things then it is a waste of time.

The Assembly's Greens and the Lib Dems continue to make the running in holding the police to account over G20. Read the whole of Jones's piece here.